Club Antique Palace

I have just returned from staying at Club Green Dream and this having been my third trip and third hotel in Marmaris, I was very happy.
Admittedly if you booked under the belief that you were staying at Antique Palace as it was, you were missold your holiday but if you booked as I did, through a website that was up to date, you will have known in advance that the slides were no longer part of the hotel.
We stayed on a B&B basis as I'd read that the self catering rooms weren't as nice and for the pittance extra they charge for the breakfast it was a no brainer. We arrived mid afternoon to a warm welcome and a speedy check in. Our bags were taken to our rooms without question. We had 3 rooms between the 6 of us and they were all very clean and well maintained - this continued throughout our stay. We left GHDs, cameras, DS' etc laying around and nothing was ever taken. The cleaners were thorough and friendly and even tidied up my teenage daughters room despite them leaving their clothes everywhere! They were picked up and folded so they could clean the floors (more than I'd do at home for them!).
The staff were brilliant. Those reviewers who complain about the 'attention' you get from the staff - it's Turkey. They all work on commission and lose their jobs if they don't hit targets. They are paid to get you to spend your money in the hotel. They earn between 10 and 25TL a day depending on experience and work their socks off to please the guests. They work long, long hours and stay as long as the guests want to stay up and still arrive the following morning with a smile and a hello.
The food is lovely and so reasonably priced compared with other restaurants off sight. Don't get me wrong, I'm a great believer in going out and enjoying other restaurants etc but for value and quality, you can't complain.
The breakfasts that everyone complains about are traditional Turkish breakfasts - you're in Turkey!!! Why do the Brits assume that when we go abroad we should be served a Full English - do you eat that every day at home? There is lovely bread and jam and cereals if you don't like the Turkish Breakfast and the snacks menu offers bacon rolls and scrambled eggs at very reasonable prices.
The entertainment is fantastic - the staff are all great fun and brought my daugheters completely out of their shells. Dancing, cocktails etc; everything you'd expect from a good Turkish hotel but better. So much so that we are returning in October for a pre winter treat. Will continue to return to Marmaris and unless it changes, will never stay anywhere else again.
Much love to all the staff; Fabio, Baran, the Mehmets, Icecream man (who is hilarious), Nigem, Mustafa, Haci, Murat, Sonic (the barman with the crazy hair) and many more, including Attila the boss. See you in October guys xxx

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Better late than never i suppose.
I stayed here in sept 2010 and had a great time.
All the guys in the restaurant were really friendly and never once took advantage of me being the tourist. My room was good and cleaned every day. Some people did complain while i was there though. They seem to be forgetting the Turkish way of life and star rating.
This is not the Hilton and nor are the prices.
So the air con might be dripping down the wall or the shower head is loose. I never had a thing touched in my room,even left cash out one day!
If you're looking for a place to shower and sleep then it's ideal,but not the place for an all inclusive package.

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i wouldnt reccomend this hotel,our room was really dirty and hardly got cleaned,you had to put your shoes on straight away when you got out of the shower or your feet would get so black you couldnt wash it off.Also money kept going missing out of our safe,we were blaming each other until one day we counted all our money and checked it an hour later to find over 100 lira had gone missing,we think the maids have a spare key and help themselves.We also found things quite expensive and were permenantly harrased to buy drinks,go to the hairdressers all the time,buy there crap perfumes,they just want your money.The men are very sleazy and dont leave you alone,they even said english women are all slags.They grab you all the time,try and grope you and the waiters all come and whisper to you to go for a walk when they finish work at midnight,we all know what they are expecting.We were glad to get home and thought that we could forget this horrible holiday only to find out i had a serious ecoli infection and 3 months on am still having problems with my kidneys,also certain staff found my daughter who is 16yrs old on facebook and started sending her death threats,not very nice at all,they said they would come and get her and chop her into tiny pieces all because she didnt fancy them.I will never be going to turkey ever again as i think they are only after our money,the young girls and also i dont think they like us.Also if you dont give them a tip they keep your change instead and put drinks on your bill at the bar for themselves.Iwould never reccomend pervy pallace to anyone...........

Hotel not too bad but the restaurant leaves a hell of a lot to be desired! very good the first couple of days then went down hill rapidly. We were half board, at breakfast we had to sit seperately to the other guests, there wasn't one day when the tea and coffee machine didn't break down! the evening meal was a joke, because we didn't book our halfboard through the hotel we had a set menu by tues evening the food started to run out for the puddings and we were getting ignored, so much for a three course meal and please take my advice don't bother with the roast, waste of money! we eneded up eating out for the last two and a half days of the holiday

what can i say what a dirty dump the maids never came in to clean your rooms or give you clean towels the only came in to look through your belongings or use ur strighners... the bathrooms are a mess the shower heads are hanging by a plaster which has been wraped around it and never cleaned felt dirty the whole the holiday, they overbooked we waited 3 days for a self cataring room which when we got there was no fridge or toaster or tv which i dnt mind dont watch tv on hol anyway..... air con is a con it only cools down the bedroom and no other room which my daughter and partner got an chest infection from as it was right over the bed.. little ones around the pool had ear infections which the doctor think was from the pool water.... the hotel never had water for a whole day and night so no one could get a shower....could go on and on would never go back again more like faulty towel..... would go back to turkey but aviod this hotel

We arrived in this hotel after a 19 hr trip from home due to problems with the plane. We were really tired & told the lift didnt work & we had to carry our cases up 4 floors! As we arrived 2 seperate groups of pple said basically that the hotel was really bad :( The room was disgusting & dirty, we had no TV (not a problem cos we dont watch it on hol). The photos & info in Thomas Cook brochure was all fake. The aircon in bed room didnt cool the other room so me & my partner slept with wet towels on us all night. The next day someone came to look at it but never did anything. The shower kept flooding the bathroom floor. The bathroom was dark & dingy & the whole place was never cleaned properly. There was holes in wall & aircon taped together! My partner & little girl got ill. The only good thing about the place was the waiters they did a brill job & were so friendly. We ended up 4 of us sleeping in 1 double bed, my partner, me & my 17 & 9 yr old daughters! In the end we managed to carry a really heavy sofa bed into the bedroom but could only just fit out of the bedroom door. I dont go on holiday to spend it moving furniture & crying!
After a week we got moved to Hibiscus Gardens & what a totally different place it was. So clean & staff were all friendly. I have never been to Turkey before & would NEVER go again :( Please believe all these bad reviews because they are all true.

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I dont normally write reviews on holidays but really felt like i should this time as this holiday was a holiday from hell! i travelled with my husband and my two young boys, when we got to the hotel it was about 1am and there wasnt a lot of staff about, we checked in and was taken to a bassment room which looked like a prison cell with two matresses on the floor for the bed, wires hanging out of the walls, dramp everywhere, the patio doors didnt open properly as they hit the wall, whitch led underneath the slides. We were moved as we refused to stay in that room, after a long time of complaining we was moved to a hotel room but we had paid for self catering and it only had three beds (there were four of us). In the morning we went to the reception to be moved again only to be moved to a apartment that had no furniture in it we were informed that they had the bailifts in a couple of weeks before and they had taken all the kitchens and furniture and left empty shells. After complaining again we were moved for the fourth time to a room that was ok after i had cleaned it.we did not pay for 5* but we did think it would be clean the maids only came around after i complained after 10 days that are sheets and towels hadnt been changed. We did make the most of our holiday and enjoyed eating out of the hotel as it was very expensive, the red rose and the cheshire bar which where only five mins away were very nice.

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I spent a sleepless night the night b4 my family and i left for our holiday to the Antique Paace, this was due to reading many varied reviews on the hotel. My review is based on my familys holiday which we have just arried back from yesterday.
The hotel is in need of up dating and redecorating but we found our room to be clean, maids came in daily, towels and bedding changed on a regular basis. The communal toilet areas were awful!
The outstanding part of our holiday was the atmosphere around the pool and bar/restaurant area. The waiters were wonderful, energitic friendly happy and very accommodating, yes they do try to get you to eat there but every restaurant that you walk past in Marmaris does the same, all are competing for trade. We had a brilliant time thanks to many people inc Omar, Diago, Carlos, Alex Harry and many more.

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i booked this hotel in jan this year for a holiday in july this year we read the reviews and thought it cant be this bad but it was awful we arrived 6am on the 3rd of july this year for our honeymoon after traveling all night we were so tired arrived at hotel to be greeted to the staff at hotel was shown to our room if thats wot you can call it , it was so dirty couldnt belive it the bed sheets were covered in dirty faces and dried blood marks there was holes in the wall by side of bed and ants were crawling throu , the bathroom was stinking the actual toilet seat had dried poo stains there were holes where the air cond were my hubby turned the air con on and had a massive shock as there were bare wires hanging lose , also our balcony was over looking the pool there was so much litter that had fallen on reception roof used condoms and old cans of larger , i couldnt belive how much of a hell hole this was i was totally shocked i went down to reception to tell all ,my concerns the manager who is called TJ came back up to my room and told me there was nothing wrong with my room and he just walked back out there was no getting throu to him he was rude and arrogant , i phoned thomas cook emergency number and was told that a rep would come out to see me at 2 oclock and i would just have to make the most of it i just sat on my balcony and cried my eyes out this was supposed to be so specail and i was here in this hotel from hell . i sat there on the balcony and couldnt belive my eyes the staff were cleaning the pool , i was totally gob smacked the member of staff was cleaning the hotel kitichen when he had moped this area he put his dirty mop that he had just used straight into the pool and cleaned the mop off and started cleaning the pool area with this , he then lent over pool and empteyed his dirty mop bucket in pool then filled it back up and threw the water over the floor around pool they swept it with a brush then swept the water back in to pool , i was totally shocked i actally had my video camera and recorded all of this i will upload video later , also i have pictures of the room i was in and the state it was in , i went and showed the manger tj this and all he could say was oh he didnt care at all , my rep billy who was working for thomas cook finaly arrived at 4 pm i showed him all the videos and pictures and he was totally shocked ,he then transfered us to another hotel within the hour , there were total of 34 people that were move from that hotel that day , so please read this review and do take notice that this hotel was awful and please avoid this hotel at all costs i will be uploading the pics and video asap . this hotel needs to be closed down its not fit for anyone to be here its dirty dangerous and the staff just dont give a stuff they take ur money and then they dont do nothing about ur complaints belive me .

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Hi. I returned from this hotel yesterday and i wanted to write a review that is based entirely on honesty. This is the worst hotel i have ever visited. When i checked in and was shown my room, my wife and i could not believe our eyes as there was dead cockroachs sitting on the pillow!!
We had our room cleaned once and had various items taken like the fridge, seat in the bedroom and my ipod!! we were never told what happened to it only for the manager to berate me for leaving it lying around.
There was 5 rooms quarantined due to an infestation and when i asked what the infestation was i was told to mind my own business!
my wife has is recovering from an operation and cleanliness is a must but in my 50 years i have never saw standards so bad. The treatment given to guests is unimaginable, once they get your money - forget everything else.
I saw two gay chaps treated with such distain it was embarrassing to watch, they were ridiculed, pointed at and made such a show of - do yourself a favour book somehere else or sleep on the beach.